The 5th International Record Collectors' Fair of Buenos Aires (5ta Feria Internacional de Coleccionismo Discografico) will take place on March 10 and 11, 2012, at Centro Cultural Borges. 

Collectors, big or small, will have the opportunity to buy, sell, or exchange recorded material that is virtually impossible to find on the market, including vinyl records, CDs, DVDs, posters, photographs, autographs, manuscripts, concert programs, slides, magazines, trading cards, videos, cinema guides, books, concert tickets, t-shirts, and all kinds of music merchandising and memorabilia.

Some of the best pieces and records displayed at the fair will be sold at a large auction. The Fair invites all the attendants to include their own items in the auction. These have to be registered in advance at the Fair's website.

Location: Centro Cultural Borges. Viamonte 525
Opening Hours:
Saturday: 11am to 10pm
Sunday: 11am to 8pm
Tickets: $ 25 Pesos

The Gran Premio Asociación Latinoamericana de Jockey Clubes e Hipódromos, simply known as "Gran Premio Latinoamericano", a horse-race for thoroughbreds from the South American hippodromes, will be held on Saturday, March 10th, 2012 for the first time since its creation in 1981 at the Hipodromo Argentino de Palermo (Av. del Libertador & Dorrego)

This annual race for 3 years old or more (GI), normally run on a distance of 2000 meters, will be raced on 2100 meters in 2012. 

The best horses in South America will participate in this event, one of the most important in the annual racing calendar. These are the officially nominated horses, with Star Runner as the great candidate for this year’s prize:

From Argentina: Cafrune, Aristocity, Expressive Halo, Bogeyman, Iberman and Star Runner. From Brazil:  Mr. Nedawi; Uruguay: Nansouk and Alcázar; from Chile: Quick Casablanca, Matter of Time, Galantuomo, and from Peru Almudena, Inolvidable and Al Qasr.

The Gran Premio Latinoamericano, the 10th race of the day at 6:00 pm,  will be the center of a spectacular journey, starting at 1.00 pm.

Free entrance

 

Horacio Salgán, considered one the greatest pianists in the history of tango, will be honored on Saturday, March 3rd, 2012 at the Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires by the orchestra he once conducted, now in charge of his son Cesar, reinforced with notable instrumentalists of the genre. 

Horacio Salgán, aged 95, is one of the most influential performers and composers in Tango history. 

The tribute will be held Saturday at 8.30pm and will include the ensemble of the historic bandoneon players that used to accompany Salgán: Julio Pane, Juan Jose Mosalini, Nestor Marconi and Ernesto Baffa.

The repertoire, totally arranged and supervised by the maestro himself, will include “Canaro en París”, “Gallo Ciego”, “Recuerdo”, “Ojos negros”, “El choclo”, “Tierra querida”, “El Entrerriano”, “A dos mujeres”, “Responso” “Al gran Maestro”, “Mano Brava”, “La llamo silbando”, “A fuego lento” and his verssion of “La pulpera de Santa Lucía” that has never been recorded. 

This special production was presented for the first time at the last World Tango Festival, becoming one the most outstanding moments of the event. 

Tickets will range from $ 10 to $ 60 Argentine Pesos, and will go be sale at the theater’s box office (Tucuman 1171) on the same Saturday 3rd, from 10am to 5pm.

Argentina Polo Tour, the fall tournament created six years ago by Adolfo Cambiaso and Gonzalo Pieres, presents the first stage of the year 2012, with matches that will be held at the Argentine Polo Association's fields in Pilar (AAP), and Campo Argentino de Polo in Palermo (Av. Libertador and Dorrego), starting March 1st, 2012, with the participation of  eight teams up to 16 goals handicap. 

Teams: 

Zone A
La Mimosa: Stefania Annunzziata 0, Matías Coria 0, Guillermo Terrera 7, Bartolomé Castagnola 9.
Puro La Manada: Giampaolo Guarnieri 0, Marcos Araya 6, Ollie Cudmore 4, Federico Von Potobsky 6.
La Ginevra: Luca d Orazio 0, Juan Zubiaurre 3 Tito Ruiz Guiñazu 7, Santiago Solari 6.
Sainte Mesme: Robert Strom 3, Christian Nordheimer 5, Gonzalo Von Wernick 7, Birger Strom 1.

Zone B
Murus Sanctus: Corinne Ricard 0, Pablo Llorente 5, Facundo Sola 7, Ramiro García Dagna 4.
Black Storm: Jean Marc Tyberg 0, Clemente Zavaleta 6, Francisco Bensadon 9, Mateo Vallejos 1.
El Remanso: Felipe Velcherino 2, Felipe Llorente 2, George Hanbury 4, Jaime García Huidobro 8.
Equus - Los Machitos: Peter Silling 0, Naco Taverna 6, Guillermo Willington 7, Tomás Garbarini.